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Bryan Ferry

The refined rocker's taste in wine runs toward the French and expensive (beautiful labels preferred)

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Lettie Teague

October 8, 2011

Bryan Ferry couldn't remember exactly where he'd been the night before. Unwinding a very large scarf from around his neck, he confessed he was a bit hoarse. It seemed Mr. Ferry had caught a bit of a chill while singing outdoors "somewhere in Atlanta," he said. That's the trouble with long tours—they render places and sometimes whole cities entirely anonymous. "Some places you only see from the window of a car," said Mr. Ferry, who is in the middle of a U.S. tour that ends in Los Angeles later this month.